Roald Dahl Quotes

Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'

Just because you know doesn't mean they know.

Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.

Where do you live?" Adam's mouth was very set. "A place made for leaving" "That's not really an answer." "It's not really a place.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

The one thing I try to do with everything I write is open people's eyes to those they normally ignore or dismiss. To make people aware of the "other" side of things. That someone's circumstances may not be what you think they are or what they show to the world.

We are surrounded by story.

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

You have to be careful what you think you know.

Beliefs create reality

If you never noticed, it never happened.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy

Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.